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ORIGINALFAKE
Produced by Medicom Toy x KAWS, OriginalFake® was born in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo in May 2006. Going down the stairs to the underground shop, you’ll be stunned by a giant object standing right at the entrance. This e...
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MINISTRY OF DESIGN
In recent years, Singaporean Design Firm Ministry of Design [MOD] is gaining both local and international recognition for its projects. SHIFT speaks to MOD’s up and coming principle designer Colin Seah who shares his ...
HAPPENING
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO + SHIRO TAKATANI “LIFE: FLUID, INVISIBLE, INAUDIBLE…”
"LIFE: Fluid, Invisible, Inaudible..." is an exhibition at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) at Shinjuku, Tokyo, from 15th September to 4th November. It is newly corroborated Ryuichi Sakamoto with Shiro Takatani fr...
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ACE HOTEL
Ace is the hotel for cultural enthusiasts and creative professionals. Ace Hotel Portland, Room 421 with Wet Confetti. Photo: John Mark Sorum The original Ace in Seattle, WA, is now part of a growing family of ...
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SCULPTURE PROJECTS MüNSTER 2007
The so-called Grand Tour is arguably the largest series of contemporary art events of the year 2007, as the triangle of three major international exhibitions happened to take place within the same year; the Venice Bie...
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LULU
Lulu is a young motion/graphic designer based in Beijing. The banner motion graphic design for Get It Louder, which had been featured on Shift until recently, was also by her. She is a very active designer with so man...
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PIXELGARTEN
Pixelgarten, from Frankfurt, which again got attention from art world as they did the cover design of 'form' for the 50 anniversary issue of the magazine more and more. They have been together for 3 years by now, the...
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BURNING MAN 2007
Experience, Exploration, Ingenuity I’ve recently returned from my first foray to what has got to be the greatest creative explosion on the planet, Burning Man. If creativity, intensity and innovation inspire an...
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FASHION UNFOLDING
Founded in 2001 in Hong Kong, Viction:ary is a design/art-oriented publisher which has been playing internationally. In summer 2007, their brand new book called “Fashion Unfolding” is released. With a main th...
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KENJI YANOBE
With his childhood memory of what he calls "the ruins of the future" in the aftermath of the Osaka Expo '70, the artist Kenji Yanobe has been creating art in a unique form with a social message. To coincide with anoth...
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SHANGHAI JINXIAN ROAD
As most of Shanghai’s residents know better, spring and autumn typically passes so fast strictly speaking two seasons are left each year. Winter can only mean frozen fingers and bulky coats, so there really is no bett...
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SH CONTEMPORARY 2007
Students holding placards in a mock protest greeted visitors as they entered the stately 1950s Soviet-designed Shanghai Exhibition Center on opening night. I had been looking forward to SH Contemporary 2007 even befor...
